1 Corinthians 9: Paul's Example of Self-Discipline - Clear & Engaging Audio Bible Reading
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1 CORINTHIANS 9
1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you
not the result of my work in the Lord?
2 Even though I may not be an apostle
to others, surely I am to you! For you are the seal of my apostleship in the
Lord.
3 This is my defense to those who sit in judgment on me.
4 Don’t we have the
right to food and drink?
5 Don’t we have the right to take a believing wife
along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?
6
Or is it only I and Barnabas who lack the right to not work for a living?
7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does
not eat its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink the milk?
8 Do I say
this merely on human authority? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?
9 For it
is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out
the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?
10 Surely he says this for
us, doesn’t he? Yes, this was written for us, because whoever plows and
threshes should be able to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest.
11 If
we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material
harvest from you?
12 If others have this right of support from you, shouldn’t
we have it all the more?
But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather
than hinder the gospel of Christ.
13 Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the
temple, and that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the
altar?
14 In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the
gospel should receive their living from the gospel.
15 But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this in the
hope that you will do such things for me, for I would rather die than allow
anyone to deprive me of this boast.
16 For when I preach the gospel, I cannot
boast, since I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the
gospel!
17 If I preach voluntarily, I have a reward; if not voluntarily, I am
simply discharging the trust committed to me.
18 What then is my reward? Just
this: that in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not
make full use of my rights as a preacher of the gospel.
19 Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to
everyone, to win as many as possible.
20 To the Jews I became like a Jew, to
win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I
myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law.
21 To those
not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free
from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the
law.
22 To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things
to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.
23 I do all
this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.
24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the
prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.
25 Everyone who competes in the
games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last,
but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.
26 Therefore I do not run
like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air.
27 No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have
preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.